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Perception on the effects of substance abuse in a comprehensive university: a case of gender

- Agumba, Justus N., Musonda, Innocent

  • Authors: Agumba, Justus N. , Musonda, Innocent
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Effects , Substance abuse , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/93897 , uj:20405 , Citation: Agumba, J.N. & Musonda, I. 2016. Perception on the effects of substance abuse in a comprehensive university: a case of gender.
  • Description: Abstract: Substance abuse has been identified to interfere with the students’ physical, cognitive and affective development. The main aim of this study was to determine the perception of gender on the effects of substance abuse on their physical, cognitive and affective development. Methodology: The research philosophy adopted was positivism and the approach was deductive. A self-administered questionnaire containing items developed from literature review was administered to 199 built environment and civil engineering students at a South African university. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. Cronbach alpha was used to achieve the reliability for internal consistency of the measured constructs i.e. physical, cognitive and affective development. Item correlation identified the correlation of the measures of physical, cognitive and affective development. T-test was further conducted to test gender perception on the effects of substance abuse on the physical, cognitive and affective development. Findings: The measures of physical, cognitive and affective development had a strong relationship and were reliable measures. Furthermore, the results suggest that there was no statistical significant difference on the perception of the effect of substance abuse on cognitive development as informed by male and female students. However, there was a significant difference on their perception on substance abuse on physical and affective development. Limitation(s): The respondents were from one comprehensive university, therefore the findings cannot be generalized for all the tertiary institutions in South Africa...
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Perception on the effects of substance abuse in a comprehensive university: a case of gender

- Agumba, Justus N., Musonda, Innocent

Gender socio-economic and demographic determinants predictors of mathematics success

- Agumba, Justus N.

  • Authors: Agumba, Justus N.
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Determinants , Gender , Engineering , Mathematics
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/17886 , uj:15934 , Citation: Agumba, J.N. 2015. Gender socio-economic and demographic determinants predictors of mathematics success. Strouhal, J. & Sandhu, P.S. (Eds.) 2015 International Conference on Environment, Agricultural & Civil Engineering (ICEACE-15), Sept. 24-25, 2015 Penang, Malaysia. pp.99-104. ISBN: 9789384422394.
  • Description: Abstract: he socio-economic and demographic factors have been indicated to predict mathematics success. However, there is paucity of research to verify if these factors differ in predicating mathematics success based on gender (male and female). Hence, this paper reports on a study of gender socio-economic and demographic factors as predictors of mathematics success for civil and built environment students at a comprehensive university in South Africa. Data was obtained through, questionnaire survey from 199 students who were purposive sampled. However, two questionnaires were not valid. The questionnaire was developed from exiting literature. The data was analysed using Statistical Package fo! r the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. The statistical analyses computed were both descriptive and inferential. Inferential statistics were used to determine gender socio-economic and demographic variables influencing mathematics success. This was computed using binary logistic regression, splitting gender into male and female. The result established that when male and female socio-economic and demographic variables were tested they were poor predictors of mathematics success. Hence all the variables were insignificant, as the p-values were less than 0.05. However, the descriptive statistics on the socio-economic and demographic factors indicated that male students outperformed the female students in mathematics at high school and at the university. In terms of weekly income majority of the students earned less than R200, with 54% male and 55% for female. It is interesting to note that female students’ parents’ highest education were far better than male students, as 38% of ! female students indicated their parents highest education level was university degree compared to 30% of male students. However, the arithmetic difference is not too wide. Furthermore, majority of female students i.e. 74% compared to 61% male students pursued the building course, whereas male students were the majority in civil engineering technology compared to their female counterparts. This study informs university policy makers that where male and female students are accommodated, their age, passing high school mathematics, amount of weekly allowance, entry level to the university and type of education sponsors does not predict passing mathematics at university. However, further research is advocated as these variables are not exhaustive
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Challenging gender equality in South African transformation policies ‒ a case of the white paper : a programme for the transformation of higher education

- Akala, B.M.

  • Authors: Akala, B.M.
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Gender , Policy , Higher education
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289748 , uj:31443 , Citation: Akala, B.M. 2018. Challenging gender equality in South African transformation policies ‒ a case of the white paper : a programme for the transformation of higher education. South African Journal of Higher Education. Volume 32 | Number 3 | 2018 | pages 226‒248. http://dx.doi.org/10.20853/32-3-1521 , ISSN: 1753-5913
  • Description: Abstract: Using a post-structural lens, I make arguments against homogenising people’s conditions and circumstances. In particular, I acknowledge that the post-1994 reform agenda intended to streamline the previously fragmented and segregated higher education landscape under the apartheid regime. Black women, who are the main target of this article suffered triple marginalisation ‒ race, social class and sexism. The aim of the article is to show the tensions that exist within the White Paper: A Programme for the Transformation of Higher Education (DoE 1997). The said tensions have stifled the attainment of gender equity and equality; effectively widening the gender fissures in post-1994 South African higher education. I argue that we should not take for granted phrases such as “equal opportunities” and “equal access” in policies. Instead, we should seek their meaning and achievement inter alia in earnest for the targeted group. Therefore, I postulate that gender and gendering is complex and very fragmented. For this reason, formulating transformation interventions on the premise of equality for all does not necessarily guarantee gender equality or gender equity. With this in mind, a “one-size fits all” approach to redressing gender equality is implausible and does not suffice in addressing salient gender injustices. I propose a multifaceted approach, which encompasses a realistic and holistic outlook on the divergent needs of black women in particular and women in general as a possible solution to the current challenges.
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The lived experiences of postgraduate female students at the University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

- Alabi, Oluwatobi Joseph, Seedat-Khan, Mariam, Abdullahi, Ali Arazeem

Gender, Conflict and Peace-Building in Africa: A Comparative Historical Review of Zulu and Igbo Women in Crisis Management

- Ani, Kelechi Johnmary, Uwizeyimana, Dominique Emmanuel

Gender, Conflict and Peace-Building in Africa : A Comparative Historical Review of Zulu and Igbo Women in Crisis Management

- Ani, Kelechi Johnmary, Uwizeyimana, Dominique Emmanuel

  • Authors: Ani, Kelechi Johnmary , Uwizeyimana, Dominique Emmanuel
  • Date: 2021
  • Subjects: Gender , Women , Peace
  • Language: English
  • Type: Journal article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/495258 , uj:44959 , Citation: Ani, K.J & Uwizeyimana, D.E., 2021. Gender, Conflict and Peace-Building in Africa : A Comparative Historical Review of Zulu and Igbo Women in Crisis Management. , ISSN: 1929-4409/21
  • Description: Abstract: The male gender has often dominated the quest for societal security. Analysis and studies on security management and peace-building tend to advance the role of the male folk more than their female counterparts. This study traced the role of historic Zulu women in societal security management and compared it to the Aba Women's War that is popularly referred to as the Aba women riot. The study used the African developmental feminism theory to anchor its analysis. It maintained that these women rose at critical times to challenge the forces that planted insecurity in their societies. It found that they engaged in both strategic and reactive peace-building. The study also reveals the similarities and differences in Zulu and Igbo women intervention in conflict and security management. Finally, the researchers recommended considering the widespread nature of insecurity in many remote parts of Africa that have consistently led to the death of women and children. There should be a re-awakening of female security regiments in many African societies, and they should be trained to secure their lives and properties through community policing efforts.
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Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to climate change

- Azong, Matilda, Kelso, Clare J., Naidoo, Kammila

  • Authors: Azong, Matilda , Kelso, Clare J. , Naidoo, Kammila
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Vulnerability , Cameroon , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/276054 , uj:29522 , Citation: Azong, M., Kelso, C.J. & Naidoo, K. 2018. Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to climate change. In African Sociological Review, 22 (1): 31‐53.
  • Description: Abstract: The experience of climate change is filtered through ones existing cultural, social and economic vulnerabilities. The rural poor in natural resource dependent communities in various African countries are likely to be negatively affected by climate change. In many cultures female farmers are considerably worse off than their male counterparts. This study makes use of a life history methodology in order to examine the particular nature of the vulnerability experienced by rural women in Oku in the Bamenda Highlands region of Cameroon. Gender is linked to vulnerability through a number of factors. These include access to and control over land, division of labour, marriage relationships, access to education and responsibility for dependents. Participants’ life histories show how vulnerability in the region develops over time and is both complex and non‐linear. Nevertheless, the participants expressed how they used their agency, both individual and collective, in coping with vulnerability. They narrate different adaptation strategies employed including livelihood diversification, and changing farming practices. Understanding the role of gender in shaping women’s vulnerability is useful in informing the design and implementation of adaptation policies. This article makes an empirical contribution to the discussions on the need to engender climate change research, policy and actions.
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The implementation of gender equality within the South African Public Service (1994–2019)

- Bangani, Ayola, Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

Renegotiating gender identities and sexual bodies : Zimbabwean migrant women’s narratives of everyday life in South Africa

- Batisai, K., Manjowo, L.

  • Authors: Batisai, K. , Manjowo, L.
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Gender , Sexuality , Migration
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/462571 , uj:41251 , Citation: Batisai, K. & Manjowo, L. 2020. Renegotiating gender identities and sexual bodies: Zimbabwean migrant women’s narratives of everyday life in South Africa.
  • Description: Abstract: A wide range of literature reveals that women in many African societies have historically been faced with the challenge of patriarchy and lack of freedom in their households – a challenge also mirrored in institutions like education, the economy, law and politics. This gendered position produces gendered inequalities which lead women to experience poverty more severely than men. Feminisation of poverty has over the years resulted in the feminisation of migration which implies the change in women’s migratory identities and roles, where women are increasingly migrating as independent migrants rather than to rejoin male family members. Often, women migrate due to a desire for greater autonomy and a decrease in social restrictions on their productive and reproductive bodies. They also migrate to enhance economic opportunities and seek new survival strategies in their endeavour to cater for their family needs and those that pertain to their being. It is against this backdrop that this article explores the experiences of migrant women and the strategies they employ as they, against all odds, renegotiate and reconstitute their gendered identities and sexual bodies in order to survive the complex realities of living in a ‘foreign’ space. The article focuses on 15 Zimbabwean migrant women’s experiences of feminised poverty that pushed them out of the boundaries of their homeland; and the sexual and gendered livelihoods that emerged as part of their survival strategies in South Africa. As the article engages with Zimbabwean migrant women’s experiences prior to and after moving to South Africa, it is at work to illuminate how sexuality and migration shape and reshape one another...
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Is the Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) of University Students dependant on gender?

- Dhliwayo, Shepherd

Gender and age differences in conflict management within small businesses.

- Havenga, W.

  • Authors: Havenga, W.
  • Date: 2008
  • Subjects: Conflict handling styles , Interpersonal conflict , Age , Gender , Small business , Rahim organisational inventory , ROC-II instrument
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5639 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2878
  • Description: The objective of this exploratory study was to establish, through the application of the Rahim Organisational Inventory (ROC II) instrument, how the gender and age status of owners/managers of small businesses relate to the application of different conflict-handling styles. The sample of 68 participants was taken using a convenience sampling technique to ensure representation from the strata of the 102 small businesses. Analysis of variances was used to determine if differences exist in conflict-handling styles within the gender and age status groups. The results of the statistical analysis done revealed that slight to significant variances were found, which are discussed accordingly.
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Gender based e-procurement within the city of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality

- Kithatu-Kiwekete, A., Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

  • Authors: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A. , Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Capacity building , E-procurement , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/227222 , uj:22991 , Citation: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A. & Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. 2017. Gender based e-procurement within the city of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality.
  • Description: Abstract: Municipalities in South Africa are expected to utilise their purchasing processes to promote gender equality. A key external goal of municipal procurement is to redress inequalities through economic opportunities and economic equity to the benefit of both men and women. Currently, most municipalities are transforming their services through electronic mode, resulting in the use of e-procurement processes which link business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and business-togovernment via information and communication technologies. Using a Gender and Development (GAD) Approach, this article aims to assess the level of gender inclusivity in the municipal e-procurement processes in the City of Johannesburg as a case study. Among the questions raised in the article are whether gender mainstreaming is considered in the municipal procurement processes; and if there are any initiatives in place to capacitate men and women to ensure their participation in the e-procurement processes. The review of literature and official documents forms part of the desktop conceptual and theoretical analysis. Utilising qualitative, descriptive and analytical research approaches, the article explores the need for gender mainstreaming in the municipal e-procurement value chain processes such as e-informing, e-tendering and vendor management. The article then offers policy implications and suggestions for improvement.
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Financing the gender imperative for procurement in the City Of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

- Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.K.

  • Authors: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.K.
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Economic equity , Gender , Johannesburg
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289612 , uj:31425 , Citation: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.K. 2018. Financing the gender imperative for procurement in the City Of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
  • Description: Abstract: An important role that municipalities can play in procurement is for the local sphere to offer opportunities to realise economic equity for enterprises owned by women and other previously disadvantaged groups. Municipal procurement can be used to address equity concerns by opening up economic prospects for particular categories of people. Gender mainstreaming may be achieved by the conspicuous inclusion of enterprises that are owned and operated by women, which often operate on the periphery of procurement. Integrating gender into municipal procurement enables women-owned businesses to participate, benefit, and in turn enhance gendered participation in Johannesburg’s local economic development (LED). This article expands the conclusions from an earlier study that was concerned with e-procurement. The article uses a qualitative analytic approach to assess how gendered procurement for the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (CJMM) has not been conducted to benefit womenowned businesses. These are compared against the municipality’s procurement policies, procedures, and reports to highlight the gender gap in municipal procurement. The article deduces that a gender gap persists in the CJMM’s municipal procurement processes, which excludes women-headed businesses from benefiting from larger contracts. The article offers suggestions for improvement. The article recommends that future research is needed that will use gender-disaggregated data to analyse municipal sector procurement for LED. The article concludes with key recommendations to enhance gender equity in municipal procurement.
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The cultural politics of adaptation : fools and the politics of gender

- Mngadi, Sikhumbuzo

  • Authors: Mngadi, Sikhumbuzo
  • Date: 2015-04-01
  • Subjects: Gender , Masculinity , Spectatorship
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5594 , ISSN 1754923x , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14295
  • Description: The shifts in the priorities of literary and cultural theory and criticism were already underway in the South African academy by the end of the 1980s, with the gathering momentum of the mass political movement reaching its apotheosis with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990. Whereas creative literary and cultural expression has often lagged behind advances in theory, there was nevertheless a steady acknowledgement of the necessity for a corresponding shift in the discursive character of the creative arts, even if the material conditions on the ground remained largely unchanged. Ramadan Suleman’s film Fools, which appeared in 1997 as an adaptation of Njabulo Ndebele’s 1983 novella by the same title, entered the fray with its argument for a new or, as it were, broader consciousness of the deeper, more complex legacy of ‘sexual violence’. This legacy included the weak ‘place of women in the everyday life of the township’ (Suleman 1995: 1), and indeed in the very idea of ‘the everyday’ that some in literary and cultural circles sought to inscribe. This article provides an assessment of the nature and extent of the film’s intervention in the context of the systematic breakdown of the old certainties of race, identity and nation post-apartheid, together with the literary-critical cultures and apparatuses that presided over their coherences and raptures. I take as my starting point Robert Stam and Louise Spence’s (1983: 3) assertion that ‘[a]though […] those questions bearing on the cinematic industry, its processes of production, distribution and exhibition’ – in short, questions bearing on ‘the contextual’ – are of ‘crucial importance’, they need to be tempered with those bearing on the ‘textual and intertextual’ (emphasis in original). Fools is a film that enters the textual and contextual terrain of Ndebele’s novella, but in doing so contests its textuality by shifting its narrative ground and voice.
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Gender effect on eating habits of Nigerian school children

- Obidoa, Jaachimma Chioma, Onyechi, Kay Chinonyelum Nwamaka, Chukwuone, Chiamaka Adaobi, Dimelu, Ifeoma Ngozi, Victor-Aigbodion, Vera, Eseadi, Chiedu, Chukwu, Chinyere Loveth, Ejiofor, Juliana Ngozi, Obande-Ogbuinya, Nkiru Edith, Uba, Mercy Benedette Ifeoma, Foloruntsho, Raphael Oluwasina Babalola, Oraelosi, Charles Azubuike, Onuorah, Anthonia Ekanibe

Gender dynamics in the choice of pre-service teacher training via an open and distance learning mode

- Olaniran, S. O., Perumal, J.

  • Authors: Olaniran, S. O. , Perumal, J.
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Gender , Pre-service teacher training , Open and distance learning
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/455397 , uj:40305 , Citation: Olaniran, S.O. & Perumal, J. 2020.
  • Description: Abstract: Open and Distance Learning (ODL) based pre-service teacher training is gaining prominence in Africa but little is known about the gender perspective to the choice of ODL programme. While there is broad consensus about the need to train new teachers through ODL because of the shortage of qualified teachers, there is a dearth of research about the complexities of being a female pre-service teacher in an ODL programme. This study employed survey research design to examine how gender influences the choice of ODL based pre-service teacher training. Three hundred and sixty-two (362) female pre-service teachers in a South African based ODL institution responded to the anonymous web-based instrument which was designed on Google form and analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that female students are motivated to enrol in an ODL pre-service teacher training because of factors such as flexibility of studies, family demands, and work-study opportunity- that accrue from such a programme. However, the study found that a significant number of the female pre-service teachers are struggling to utilize e-learning technologies. The study, therefore, recommends special training programmes for female students with a significant part of such training facilitated by female education specialists and technologists.
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Girl-child streetism and possible interventions in the Sub-Saharan Africa

- Olanirian, Sunday Olawale, Perumal, Juliet

  • Authors: Olanirian, Sunday Olawale , Perumal, Juliet
  • Date: 2021
  • Subjects: Gender , Streetism , Girl children
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/483834 , uj:43924 , Citation: Olanirian, S.O. & Perumal, J. 2021. Girl-child streetism and possible interventions in the Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Description: Abstract: Streetism is a growing problem worldwide and Africa is one of the continents of the world with the highest population of street children. United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) refers to street children as children for whom the street, more than their family, becomes their real home. The recent statistics released by the UNICEF revealed that States in the North-east and North-west regions of Nigeria have female primary net attendance rates of 47.7 percent and 47.3 percent, which shows that more than half of the girls in those parts of the country are not in school. This paper examined streetism from the gender perspective, with a view to drawing the attention of the government, civil societies, and other stakeholders towards responding to the menace of steet girls. This study was carried out by conducting document analysis and careful study of various secondary data sources obtained online. Google scholar, Scopus and African Journals Online (AJOL) were used to retrieve journal articles, news items and other electronic materials written on the complexities of streetism as it affects girl children in the Sub-Saharan Africa. High vulnerability to violence, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, and teenage pregnancy are the major problems found in the literature to be of peculiarity to street girls. Special programmes such as street education and literacy, as well as vocational skills acquisition programmes for street children were suggested as possible interventions to respond to the menace of streetism in the SSA.
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Thematic paper : the gendered character of social care in the non-profit sector in South Africa

- Patel, Leila

Intersections of Queer Art and African Indigenous Culture: The Case of Inxeba (The Wound)

- Pauwels, Matthias

  • Authors: Pauwels, Matthias
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Gender , Marginality , Queer art
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/447168 , uj:39185 , Citation: Matthias P. 2020. Intersections of Queer Art and African Indigenous Culture: The Case of Inxeba (The Wound).
  • Description: Abstract: This article assesses some recurrent criticisms, based on respect for traditional culture, levelled at art works that thematise non-heteronormative gender positionalities in South Africa. More specifically, it reconsiders the stormy, local reception of the South African movie Inxeba (The Wound), a queer love story set in the context of the male initiation rites of the Xhosa community. The article focuses on criticisms of the movie based on the alleged misrepresentation and misappropriation of indigenous cultural practices. It aims to reflect on the complicated knot of problematics that queer artists and activists have to navigate in South Africa, including entrenched heteronormative traditions, but also multiculturality and racial privilege. New ways of negotiating these problematics are proposed through the development of a more complex topographical account of the intersections of multiple forms of marginality, as well as through the application of multiculturalist theories regarding ways to assist oppressed minorities in traditional cultures.
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